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THE TRAIL

Hillary and the Invisible Women

NEWSWEEK
Mar 17, 2008 Issue

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  • Posted By: everyvotenow @ 04/06/2008 1:51:35 PM

    Comment: I am voting for the most electable candidate .....who is the most qualified in all areas.....passionate about helping people.......a strong leader..........can bring the democratic party together.....has experience speaking with leaders from all around the world.......as well as a great record in the Senate......and will come to work on day 1 with a real plan for our economy, the war in Iraq, health care, keeping our country safe.....and many others. I will vote for Hillary Clinton for President.
    I have been doing much of my own research on all the candidates as I realize in this economy the different news Medias are hurting for dollars and right now the political ads are making up 80% of ads and income.
    That means to me , that whatever keeps ratings up, is what they will keep putting on. Not a bad idea to look things up first hand. Obama has his goods points also , but I believe Hillary will win. HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT.........SHE CARES.......GO HILLARY.......

  • Posted By: creedsdad @ 03/28/2008 1:41:01 PM

    Comment: yes Obama a Idoit

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/28/2008 11:30:53 AM

    Comment: tephraim: If you were struggling to make ends meet you would do everything in your power to fight. Hillary has made some bad decisions regarding the campaign but it still doesn't mesn she is not the most electable. She has a great platform and she is realistic to the needs of the country not just a few. She is not associated with people who want to hurt the United States or white people. She is struggling to fight for her political career. One of Obama's major influences, Deval Patrick, was more concerned about his 7 figure book deal than his states well being. Its okay because the vote for gambling was lost but just like Obama he voted present. Now that is not what we need in this country. We need action not just present.

    • Posted By: tephraim @ 03/28/2008 22:15:18

      Comment: I hear your argument, but I do not believe that ANY of the candidates have a desire to hurt our country or white people. I do not see what you see. I see a choice between a woman who has lost herself in this fight and she is willing to win at any cost and outside of the rules. She seems so desperate to me. I have always supported the Clintons, but it appears to me that they are trying to lead by force while Obama is leading by inspiring and motivating. This started out with two people, either of which would have been wonderful and has ended with Obama being above politics as usual. I may not agree with him on everything, but I appreciate the fact that he creates conversation out of chaos that challenges the citizens of this country to think and try to see where others are coming from. The fact that he is white and black causes me to believe that he does not hate either race because to do so would be to hate himself and his mother. It is my hope that Hillary maintains the dignity that she has left. As a woman, I understand our struggles, but I also understand how important appearances are. It appears that I can not trust her anymore. Maybe it will change. I hope that it does. I would love for her to give me a reason to believe in her again.

      • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/30/2008 15:51:04

        Comment: I will vote republican which I haven't done in five elections if Obama get the nomination. I don't trust his idea of hope and change especially since he can't even define what hope and change is or means. I definitely do not trust his affiliations to haters of the United States and white people either. Also with Florida and Michigan blocking his way to the White House all of this may be a moot point.

      • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 03/28/2008 23:21:55

        Comment: Just vote Republican and quit lighting wicks and hopin they dont blow up in your face

  • Posted By: tephraim @ 03/27/2008 2:54:34 PM

    Comment: I started out in Hillary's corner. She has done everything she can to change that. She is not the most electable. She is very desperate and willing to do anything to win, including going against the will of the people.


    She is self destructing and whole world is watching.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/27/2008 12:47:08 PM

    Comment: Truthforward: Everyone is irrational at times including us who are on this website debating our candidates faults, likes and dislikes. Regardless of what we think or feel, this is politics. NO ONE is above playing the way everyone has been playing. The deal is who will come out on top. Bottom line Hillary is still the most electable as shown by the states she acquired. The sooner you realize it only takes 11 states to win the election then and only then will you understand the other 39 plus are just security and most of those states have been known to give it up to the Republicans.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/27/2008 12:46:22 PM

    Comment: Truthforward: Everyone is irrational at times including us who are on this website debating our candidates faults, likes and dislikes. Regardless of what we think or feel, this is politics. NO ONE is above playing the way everyone has been playing. The deal is who will come out on top. Bottom line Hillary is still the most electable as shown by the states she acquired. The sooner many of you realize it only takes 11 states to win the election then and only then will you understand the other 39 plus are just security and most of those states have been known to give it up to the Republicans.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/27/2008 12:46:18 PM

    Comment: Truthforward: Everyone is irrational at times including us who are on this website debating our candidates faults, likes and dislikes. Regardless of what we think or feel, this is politics. NO ONE is above playing the way everyone has been playing. The deal is who will come out on top. Bottom line Hillary is still the most electable as shown by the states she acquired. The sooner many of you realize it only takes 11 states to win the election then and only then will you understand the other 39 plus are just security and most of those states have been known to give it up to the Republicans.

  • Posted By: zivili13 @ 03/27/2008 10:10:58 AM

    Comment: I believe that the cover of your magazine was misleading and perhaps even deceitful. This cover makes it appear that Barack Obama actually changed his name, when "Barack" actually WAS his given name. It would have been easier to go through grade school and high school with the name "Barry!" It seems to me that someone wanted the public to think that Barack actually CHANGED his name!?!?! As a long-time subscriber to your magazine, I am disappointed.

  • Posted By: tephraim @ 03/26/2008 9:26:03 PM

    Comment: Are you kidding me? 4000 of our nation's children have died in a war that was based on a lie, told by our current administration, and we still haven't capture the person responsible for the 9/11 attacks on our country. The economy is in the worst shape it has been in since WW II.

    I respect McCain, but I do not want to continue the Bush legacy, which is what he promises to do.

    I used to respect Mrs. Clinton, but she is beginning to scare me. She has no integrity, even the appearance of integrity has disappeared.

    Mr. Obama, so far has taken on the difficult issues. He has been honest and consistent about his belief about the war, and special interests. He does not seem to be infected by Washiington and he brings the best out in people. I will take my chances with this young man who, so far, has proven to be a great leader.


  • Posted By: petty @ 03/26/2008 2:22:22 PM

    Comment: for lithwick,soul-searching and indentity poltics is?

  • Posted By: petty @ 03/26/2008 2:21:20 PM

    Comment: writer Dahlia lithwick says demoractic women have influenced the primary race in what way?

  • Posted By: willmac @ 03/26/2008 11:35:00 AM

    Comment: Anyone who wants to discuss race needs to check out the recent data on genetics and race. We are all descendant from southern and central Africa. There is only one race, the human race. We also need to study history. Prior to Columbus discovering America there were no differences between people of different color skin. When are we going to let this go and move on?

  • Posted By: jcd28 @ 03/26/2008 9:24:50 AM

    Comment: Anyone who votes for Obama is an idiot.

    • Posted By: creedsdad @ 03/28/2008 13:38:33

      Comment: your right

  • Posted By: jcd28 @ 03/26/2008 9:24:05 AM

    Comment: Obama and his wifr are "Closet racists", he has shown his true colors, not red, white and blue, but for black only, he is a snke in the grass.

  • Posted By: sroughgarden @ 03/25/2008 2:29:09 PM

    Comment: After Obama made one of the most powerful and provocative speeches about race that our world has ever heard, Newsweek puts a small black-and-white high school photo of him on its cover? Handsome color photos of Hillary Clinton have graced Newsweek covers since the campaign began, but where are the comparable images of Obama? Such editorial imbalance can only be interpreted as prejudice

    • Posted By: jcd28 @ 03/26/2008 09:26:23

      Comment: Enter Your Comment
      Obama is a racist.

    • Posted By: willmac @ 03/26/2008 08:02:48

      Comment: I totally agree. I think the cover is racist. Our country needs to move away from this type of character maligning. I am surprised that Newsweek would put this on their cover. Are there members of the KKK on the editorial board of Newsweek? How could they be so blind? Was it a mistake or have they fallen victim to believing what the other media tells them. Large white cover with small African American boy. It is hard not to see the message here.

  • Posted By: sroughgarden @ 03/25/2008 2:27:47 PM

    Comment: After Obama made one of the most powerful and provocative speeches about race that our world has ever heard, Newsweek puts a small black-and-white high school photo of him on its cover? Handsome color photos of Hillary Clinton have graced Newsweek covers since the campaign began, but where are the comparable images of Obama? Such editorial imbalance can only be interpreted as prejudice.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 03/25/2008 9:53:05 AM

    Comment: Can you believe she would lie about receiving sniper fire... She is out of her mind. And she got caught. Is that integrity, in Hillaryland? And she blackmailed half those superdelegates (they are so afraid to vote the way they really want, for Obama).

    Well, Obama has real world integrity, integrity people can count on.

    All Clinton had to do is split the delegates. That would be fair since she did not have a real win and the states are already penalized. But Clinton stone walled the issue and said no. Clinton just does not know how to put people ahead of her own agenda. And much of her votes came from Republicans who want to manipulation the election (you can thank Republican commentators for that). Does she realize that she ultimately fools no-one.

  • Posted By: tephraim @ 03/25/2008 12:02:04 AM

    Comment: Let's talk about integrity. Last Monday, Mrs. Clinton told an audience that as first lady, she faced sniper fire as she was getting off the plane. She said that it was such a dangerous situation that the welcoming ceremony was canceled,

    Well, video of that trip surfaced. There was no sniper fire. There was a welcoming ceremony with an eight year old girl reading her poetry.........and you talk about integrity.

    I am a true Democrat who will vote for our nominee, no matter who it is.........its looking like it will be Obama.

  • Posted By: tephraim @ 03/24/2008 11:48:54 PM

    Comment: OBAMA has nothing to with a re-vote, nor does Mrs. Clinton. That is a state legislative issue. Mr. Obama has done everything by the rules. Now the losing party, Mrs. Clinton, wants to change the rules because she has no way of winning with the rules that have been out in place.........and you say Obama has no integrity. Are you serious?

    Where else can you change the rules as you go?

    If you do not like Mr. Obama because of this, you never liked him.

  • Posted By: ann typical white woman?? @ 03/24/2008 12:55:23 PM

    Comment: Obama has no integrity. He agrees with whomever can garner him more votes and delegates.
    Accepting Richardson's endorsement (added TEDDIE and KERRY to that too) are against
    what he told Americans was not right, that is to have the super delegates GO AGAINST their state voters. Guess this means what we are slowing finding out it true--HE's a BIG LIAR and can't be trusted. NAFTA, Rev. Wright, Farrakhan, Rezko, ELI JONES, and a trail of other associates will continue to shed the light of truth about Obama. I believe he is a racist like his close associates and that he probably is a still a Muslim, too.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 03/22/2008 11:36:49 AM

    Comment: FL had a Republican Governor who wanted to see that Democratic voters are disenfranchised, so that they will not vote in the general election. FL knew the rules.

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/23/2008 09:13:53

      Comment: It certainly seems it worked. Because now the road to the White House will have to go through Florida and Michigan. Obama's non-support of the re-vote will come back to haunt him should he get the nomination. Oh well you play with fire you are bound to get burned. This isn't the first time he's done that. He did that with NAFTA and the Teamsters, Rezko, his church's affiliations with the likes of Farrakhan. So all his shenanigans will come back to haunt him. His credibility is NIL.

  • Posted By: everyvotenow @ 03/21/2008 5:28:02 PM

    Comment: Anyone know why THE CHANGING OF DATE FOR FLORIDA'S VOTING WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN WHEN THE FLORIDA GOVERNMENT KNEW THE VOTES WOULD NOT COUNT. ? WHY WERE THE VOTES EVEN COUNTED Here in Florida? Think about it folks..... They knew before hand we would be disenfranchised.. ......Question the why of this whole scenario>>>>>

    • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/22/2008 01:27:22

      Comment: Republican party has a national plan to control the outcome of the election. Republican primaries had no problems & they also voted in Democratic caucuses to skew Democratic results to sabotage our primaries. Republican Event Outlines Obama Attack Plan http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8564.html

  • Posted By: everyvotenow @ 03/21/2008 5:20:26 PM

    Comment: I was told the reason the Repubican Governor , House and Senate passed and signed a bill to move Florida's ....Presidential Preference Primary up to January 29th was so that a lot of money would be brought into Florida by way of all the campaigning here. Please someone explain that logic to me.

  • Posted By: everyvotenow @ 03/21/2008 4:58:35 PM

    Comment: Where is the leadership in this Florida .....Michigan ...fiasco????? Why is not Florida's Republican House and Republican Senate....who passed a bill to change Florida's ...Presidential Primary voting date.....and signed by Florida's Republican Governer Charlie Crist not being held accountable for changing the date knowing that Florida's votes would not count when they did it. It seems so basic. They knowingly disenfranchised an Entire State by doing so. And now Florida 's Republican Governor the same Charlie Crist is saying he thinks it's outragous for Florida votes not to be counted. They are also mentioning his name on the news a s a possible choice for Vice Presidentioal running mate on the Republican ticket..
    Who owns who ......Who is running our country? I guess I won't have a voice or a vote that will count. Good luck to the rest of the country. You all may be next..to lose your vote. Totally unacceptable.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 03/21/2008 8:38:21 AM

    Comment: And Clinton has had plenty of time to think this issue over, and she is still irrational on this.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 03/21/2008 8:37:05 AM

    Comment: Referring to the delegate issues, MI and FL. This situation has to be handled within the rules. Going outside the rules is irrational, I believe.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 03/21/2008 8:33:55 AM

    Comment: So you admit that she's irrational?... Jrmapu... Just know that Women are not called irrational in my post. Only Hillary. But you do have a right to your sensitivity.

    (Yes, I guess men irrational too sometimes. Example: Bill wants interns while he is married.)

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 03/20/2008 11:01:14 PM

    Comment: Hillary can be so irrational sometimes. Question: How many lies can she tell in 3 months? How many rules can the Clintons brake? How many interns does Bill wish to have?

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/21/2008 02:26:34

      Comment: Aren't men irrational sometimes? She is playing in a man's world and I guess it can be demeaning to think a woman can play hard ball. Isn't that what is needed to win against the opponent? Guts and talent?I

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/19/2008 10:30:23 PM

    Comment: How about this idea, why don't the delegates be awarded straight up for each state won? Guess who wins? HILLARY. My problem is I don't understand how someone can win less states and still would come out the winner. What stinks is the process of how delegates are bought. With super delegates not far behind. So maybe all you so called democrats need to recalculate the actual totals. When she says she is electable that is not a fairy tale. She won the states with the most delegates to be awarded. Obama has been buying votes. And don't say you don't think so. He outspent her in campaign funds for the elections and the delgates/superdelegate support.

  • Posted By: tallgal60 @ 03/19/2008 4:23:31 PM

    Comment: Professional politians operate under the assumption that rules don't apply to them, so thy do as they please and are unwilling to accept the consequences Senator Clinton knew when she ran in Michigan and Florida that those delegates would not count, but hoping to do an end-run around the rule of DNC she chose to run anyway. She has done a gross disservice to the voters of both states.
    It's time for some accountability.

  • Posted By: tallgal60 @ 03/19/2008 3:57:55 PM

    Comment: What is it that makes professional politicians believe that they don't have to play by the rules? Hillary knew when she ran in Michigan and Florida that those deligates would not count., but she chose to push the envelope anyway. Now she wants those deligates. It's time to hold her accountable for a decision that was unfair to voters, just because she wants to win at any price.. LD

  • Posted By: LDJ Alabama @ 03/18/2008 9:21:39 PM

    Comment: Former First Lady's paper to go public. GOOD FOR YOU HILLARY!!! We need to be seen as the "PARTY OF INTEGRITY"!

    I realize that this is a little off subject, BUT IT'S STILL A VERY HOT TOPIC!

    Attention Hillary and Obama's camp: We need to put a STOP to all this revote or do-over nonsense (Florida/Michigan) that the media is playing up. Important side note to all you Floridians!

    Re: Florida Revote

    KUDOS TO ALL FLORIDIANS! The power of the "PEOPLE" and a handful of honest Democratic politicians prevailed! Thank you for NOT succumbing to the intense pressure of the "Washington Insider Club" (Establishment). After what happen in 2000, God forbid we have another Florida voting scandal ... only this time by means of "DO-OVER" mail-in fraud.
    Good for you Floridians! Shame on you Michigan Power Players!!

    I know that it's NOT the average Floridians fault---nor the average folk from Michigan---I blame the powers that be in both those states for not taking care of business with the DNC when they should have. They should have worked out their differences with the DNC BEFORE their respective primary's.

    THEY CAN'T CHANGE THE RULES NOW!!!

    I don't care how close the race is right now. Somehow ... someway a winner will be declared without DO-OVER's in Florida and Michigan. With all the DO-OVER talk and Super Delegate controversy, our primaries are starting look like a three-rink circus. C'mon my fellow Dems!

    All you folks in Michigan speak up! Refuse to take part in these bogus DO-OVER'S, it's causing embarrassment to our party. Again, I know it's not your fault, but do the right thing like Florida. Just sit it out until the General Election. Then come back STRONG! RECORD NUMBER TURNOUT!!!

    As a party, we need to "UNITE" and be seen on the World Stage as the party of INTEGRITY! We need to rise above ANY and ALL suspicions of voter fraud and/or manipulation.

    Without that! I really don't see us beating the Republicans come November.

    Hillary/Obama 2008! OR Obama/Hillary 2008

    I don't care which name comes first! LET'S UNITE NOW, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

    Florida and Michigan SHOULD just split the pledged delegates 50-50. PERIOD!


  • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/18/2008 12:18:56 AM

    Comment: http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/31/obamas-african-hubris-2/

    ???Leader of Kenyan Orange Democratic Movement opposition leader, Raila Odinga, is Barack Obama???s cousin???wants to be president???two of Kenya???s tribes???are killing each other over a disputed election Odinga, claims was stolen from him???Former Clinton aides currently working for Obama???directed Dick Morris to Kenya to advise the Odinga campaign in Nov. 2007, after Odinga visited Obama in America. Morris was an extremely divisive factor in Kenyan elections???Kenya currently on edge of political chaos & civil war???

    Which Democratic presidential candidate has positive & effective foreign policy experience?

  • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/17/2008 4:58:28 PM

    Comment: Amb. Elizabeth Bagley

    ???As former US Amb. & Irish citizen, I support Sen. Clinton for Pres., she has strength & experience to assume Presidency, she has proven track record of promoting peace in N. Ireland for a decade, through her advocacy on behalf of children damaged by conflict & her encouragement & promotion of women in political process.

    Hillary visited N. Ireland 7 times from 1995 & 2004, she brought together women from communities, Catholic & Protestant, to meet & work together toward a common goal of peace in N. Ireland.

    In Sept., 1998, she spoke at first Vital Voices Conference on Women in Democracy in Belfast, brought 400 women to promote their leadership in peace process. Hillary announced $2 M in public/ private partnerships to support community, expand child care services, assist women in business & strengthen advocacy skills. She pledged she & Pres. would stand with them as they took risks for peace & urged them to transform their ideas into actions, & their dreams of a peaceful Ireland into reality.

    I serve on board of Vital Voices Int., founded by First Lady Hillary to promote political & economic empowerment for women, co-sponsored 1998 conference with First Minister David Trimble & Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, who praised work of conference. It is, puzzling Lord David Trimble referred to Hillary???s involvement in N. Ireland Peace Process as ???a wee bit silly???, when his wife, Daphne, attended all training sessions sponsored by Vital Voices & actively involved in its reconciliation & development work.

    Hillary???s passion & commitment to N. Ireland contributed to peace process & to Good Friday Agreement of 1998, but it continues to this day. As Senator, she has visited Rep. of Ireland & N. Ireland, where she met all political leaders, including the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, whom she also meets every year during his St. Patrick???s Day visits to Washington. When Martin McGuiness & Ian Paisley visited Washington as First & Deputy Ministers of new N. Ireland Assembly, they met Pres. Bush & then Sen. Clinton, to thank her for her contributions to the peace process. Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume stated, ???Anyone criticizing her foreign policy involvement should look at her very active & positive approach to N. Ireland & speak with people of N. Ireland who have highest regard for her & are very grateful for her very active support for our peace process.???

    http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/article/view/?id=6506

    • Posted By: jannie will @ 03/18/2008 11:56:05

      Comment: Obama, defenitely, Hillary has more negatives than any politician in the last 100 years. In this mornings paper I read where Bill & Hill want to change the rules for selecting the nominee, forget the delegates. There has never been a rule written that applied to them. They willl stop at nothing, beware.

      • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/19/2008 09:14:34

        Comment: Okay, and having a leader in power whose affiliation with people who want to hurt the United States is alright with you? Remember he denounces them not disown them. His words. Hello. They are like his family.

  • Posted By: jtcs73 @ 03/17/2008 11:36:42 AM

    Comment: I really appreciate Newsweek's work in putting a wide range of angles on Clinton. One thing I am getting tired of in general, and it was touched on in several stories, is the tendency to lump all boomer women together in support of Clinton. A generalization like that ignores one of the fundamental symptoms of Boomeritis -- a profound sense of individuality and doin' our own groovy thing.
    As a woman, a Boomer, and a New York State resident, I don't believe I have any particular responsibility to vote for a woman because she is a woman. I look at a candidate's record and history.
    Is Obama light on details? Maybe. But I'm not convinced Clinton's proposals have any weight behind them, either: The next time Clinton speaks on the economy, ask her where the 200,000 jobs are she promised upstate New York. Since she took office, we've not only NOT gained those jobs, we've lost 25,000.

    • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/18/2008 00:07:34

      Comment: Next time Obama speaks ask him why he let his friend Lester Crown sell Maytag to Whirlpool, resulting in 1,600 Illinois jobs getting moved to Mexico. And then ask why OB took over $150,000 for his campaign from Lester Crown, & why OB gave Crown's son, James Crown, a job on his Campaign Finance Committee. Ask OB why he let Exelon Nuclear Plant leak waste in IL groundwater & took $85,000 Exelon donations.

      • Posted By: jtcs73 @ 03/18/2008 16:59:49

        Comment: Those jobs wouldn't have gone south if Hillary's husband hadn't worked so hard to implement Bush I's NAFTA. The point: for every finger pointed one way, three point back. Do candidates accept contributions? Well, yeah, they do. And as long as it's reported and not hidden that's OK. I will be curious to find out who contributed to the Clinton library and their IRS returns.

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/17/2008 12:00:57

      Comment: Are you one of those not working? Or maybe you are too good to work in a minimum paying job. There are jobs, you just choose to not see. Or maybe you are not qualified for the jobs that you want. Ummmm.

      • Posted By: jannie will @ 03/17/2008 15:19:35

        Comment: I said last week that many Clinton followers are lacking in vocabulary and reasoning skills, you didn't change my mind.

        • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/17/2008 18:46:14

          Comment: Since you are the expert, what is Obama's meaning of hope and change? The only thing I see is the same old politics going on. If I'm unreasonable as are many of the other followers then explain why would we want someone like McCain over Obama? I will tell you why. He is not credible. He lost that with the NAFTA debacle and the affiliation with the haters of the United States and white people.

      • Posted By: jtcs73 @ 03/17/2008 13:05:57

        Comment: What a sad response.
        I'm not sure how I touched off such an angry and bitter reaction, but yes I do have a job, one I like a lot. Too good? Where does that come from? Like most Americans I will work -- and have worked -- minimum wage jobs if that's what it takes. But I'm fortunate enough to earn more than that, now. Are minimum wage jobs the answer? I doubt it. I know people that are working two and three minumum wage jobs and can still barely pay the bills.
        Have a nice day

        • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/17/2008 18:50:54

          Comment: Well when you mentioned the numbers like you did, yes it does touch off many whistles. There are jobs out there. They may not be the most glamorous but there are jobs out there. I have a daughter who is working two jobs just to afford rent, utilities, childcare and food. She lives too far from me so I cannot help her. She is doing it on her own. By the way she is a single mother of three. Have agood day as well.

          • Posted By: jtcs73 @ 03/19/2008 15:54:37

            Comment: I'm still not sure why that lead to a Clinton-like attack on the baseless generalization I'm unwilling to work. God bless your daughter, but doesn't she some day hope to have more?
            Using the logic that "jobs are out there," Hillary promised 200,000 MORE jobs by counting the minimum wage jobs that were already there, that apparently no one knows how to find, so she can say she brought them to upstate NY. I see.

            • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/19/2008 21:43:24

              Comment: Thank-you for the nice comment about my daughter.
              Hillary' and her co-workers, lets call them that, all contribute to the livelihood of the nation to create jobs and they may not be glamorous but they are out there. Its not just Hillary its her and the other senators responsibilities to make sure they receive funding from the federal government to allow them the opportunities to create the jobs.
              Some people work at the lowest jobs because no one wants them and seem to be proud to contribute to America. These are foreigners. We as Americans take that for granted. No one can deny that. Some people want to start at the top instead of working their way up.
              I may not be explaining this correctly but bottomline everyone is responsible for getting their own jobs. They are out there. Some are underqualified and some over.

  • Posted By: gerib247 @ 03/17/2008 4:33:00 AM

    Comment: Hillary Clinton IS America's best hope for change. If America is going to survive and revive, we need to start paying attention to "the economy. stupid". Hillary has identitfied the country's biggest economic challenge- healthcare. The healthcare crisis has closed several hospitals in New Jersey and is about to close one of the largest comprehensive Medical Centers in my community. The state is near bankruptcy with Gov. Corzine's state budget eliminating 5,000 jobs and cutting money for funding charity care to many urban hospitals. Charity care is defined as providing medical care to the uninsured. The first solution to any problem is to admit you have one. Last week, during one of his state of the nation speeches, I heard President Bush say there was no healthcare crisis. He suggested that any one with a health issue wnd no insurance just need to present themselves to any American hospital to receive the best medical care in the world. If our hopsitals can no longer afford to supply this type of care and ore forced to close, where will those without insurance go to get that care? Why isn't The White House bailing out these faltering institutions, if they are driving more people to them? This is the number one economic issue in this country today. With its far-reaching economic implications in the community, We MUST acknowledge the problem of the uninsured, immigration and the economy before we can move this country forward. Hillary will be the one to acknowledge this country's failing economy and healthcare crisis. If Bear, Sterns is collapsing. perhaps what we need in this country today, is a female FDR offering new jobs, healthcare for all and a political climate that redirects our financial resources back to our shores and investing in our businesses and people. Hillary will also resort to diplomacy and end the tragic war in Iraq. It can't be good to have alienated our foreign allies, while embracing the aggressive pre-emptive strike mentality of the Bushes and spending 3 Trillion dollars, money better directed to solve our own economic issues and protect us from our enemies. We need help. We need change. We need a woman's perspective and voice, a good listener. Hillary is my choice for change.

    • Posted By: jannie will @ 03/17/2008 12:10:47

      Comment: "We need a woman's perspective:" Maybe so, but not a woman who is where she is because of who she married. She has no experience successfully running anything on her own. We need a woman who is independent and yet can work with others. We need a uniter, and I have nerver heard, even her most ardent supporter, claim that Hilary can unite squat.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/17/2008 12:45:46 AM

    Comment: Many of you say you want a female president yet you continuously demean Hillary. Sorry , but the lady (yes, lady) has always carried herself as a crusader even before she married Bill. This is why Laura Bush will not run for President.
    Hillary was always destined to fight for rights of people. I don't believe one word that comes out of Obama's mouth. He's saying all the right things. The difference is he is sticking his foot in his own mouth. NAFTA, Teamsters, his xerox speeches, riding on the coattails of Hillary's ideas. He cannot think for himself. He stumbles when challenged.
    Hillary may not get the delegate count but she damn well got the states that elect presidents spending less money. The DNC is in major trouble, they know this and they know their strongest candidate is Hillary. She can go head up with McCain on any issue. Obama will crash and burn because the only thing he can preach is hope and change. The problem is this hope and change involves shady characters whom will be looking for the promises that were made to them to get him the nomination and the presidency. That is why I will vote McCain for president if Obama gets the nomination. Voting for Nader won't do a thing. I will stomp for McCain the same as I am for Hillary. Many others not far behind.

  • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/16/2008 7:10:01 PM

    Comment: Northern Ireland Former Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, ..."Vital Voices International, founded by First Lady Hillary Clinton to promote political & economic empowerment for women, co-sponsored first conference with First Minister David Trimble...praised the work of conference...puzzling that Lord Trimble referred to Hillary's involvement in the N. Ireland peace process as"a wee bit silly", when his wife, Daphne, attended & actively involved in its reconciliation and development work." http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/article/view/?id=6506

  • Posted By: jannie will @ 03/16/2008 1:58:42 PM

    Comment: Before turning on the computer today I wondered if I could find any paragraphs written by Hilary supporters that would not include the word 'hate' in some form. So the first 2 I come across have it in their comments. Do you Hilary supporters not have a vocabulary, are you not educated.? I read that Hilary did best in Texas amoung the lower educated class, I am believing it. During her 8 years in the White House Hilary ripped more individuals and groups than any other first lady in my lifetime, going on 8 decades. The thing that turned me off was her blaming the female victims, instead of her wandering mate. I thought women were to be treated with equality, not as things to be used. Maybe these writers are from her staff carrying out their assigned duty. No, I am not an Obama supporter, but I feel he is the least tainted, and he has more legislative experience than Hilary, accomplished in a smaller time frame.

    • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/16/2008 19:21:04

      Comment: Hillary is spelled with two l's. I cannot speak for all Hillary supporters as to their 'hate' speech. I do not use 'hate' to get my message across. I already voted for OB as my senator, & I regret that vote for many documented reasons regarding his failure to his constiuents. His legislative experience is dismal, if you base your support on his you are mislead by lists on internet that are bills he signed, not passed. HC bills are more due to passing as laws. I am an educator with a degree by th way.

  • Posted By: cowen123456 @ 03/16/2008 10:09:18 AM

    Comment: I love this article and it is way overdue. I sensed this silent wave of support for HIllary weeks before the Ohio and Texas primaries. I tired to imagine what other women must be thinking and feeling about HIllary and I saw myself. I am a life-time conservative voter. I"ve always voted GOP though I have moderate views that gets me frustrated at times with my party. In any case, I am not a solid HIllary supporter. I must say that what got me to get up and began listening to HIllary and get to know her was the awsome gender bias I saw from the media. When the bias got so out of hand, I just couldn't sit still any longer. I got up, I listened, I learned and I began to compare and contrast. The homework took awhile because i truely did not want to vote democrate...however, it is now undenialbe. HIllary is the best candidate for the position and I believe this country is actually lucky to have her as a candidate. The idea that a candidate is taking the reality approach with talk of experience, solutions, specifics, accontability is refreshing. She is doesn't come across as someone who is dancing and singing for my vote.....she's simply just talking....talking in a very simple and regular way....just like what we all do. She has been little energy into her image in this election....even though the media have constantly said how hated she is and how the public do not trust her. She lets those things stay where they are and just continue to get up, go out there and talk....talk in a very simple and regular way...just like what we all do.

  • Posted By: obama is a fraud. please educate yourself @ 03/15/2008 7:23:59 PM

    Comment: Please get educated. This is not a matter of Hillary as much as you Obamas want to make it. Get educated and look into Obama's background like the rest of Hillary supporters. He is the cult follower of that black separatist racist pastor. This is no longer funny. The would be American president new about those comments ONE YEAR ago and never denounced those antiAmerican comments about 911. He knew and went on OLBERMAN and denied that he did. He just yesterday, this transparent candidate that has integrity admitted he lied again about REZKO. He received Wake up. This isnt about Hillary no matter how crass you want to be. $250K not $100K. This man we can trust and change we can believe in a FRAUD. This isnt about Hillary. Nobody is asking you to vote for her. Please educate yourself. Go to that separatist website. Read the anit-white America sentiment. This man is a fraud. Just please educate yourself. Obama is not a patriot. He is a puppet of a deranged racist and a man of god who called this country: The US of KKK A. God damn America. And make graphically disturbing comments about the former President and First Lady. Please educate yourself. Obama is a racist. Period. Look for yourself. He knew about all those comments and never spoke out our distanced himself from them. Look and see who is making race an issue. Another Harvard professor is coming to his ad trying to make the 3am about "black men hiding in the bushes and the KKK." Please educate yourself. Jon Alter has been a backer of Obama all the way and a staunch Hillary hater.Wake up.

  • Posted By: H.L. Merncken @ 03/15/2008 4:17:15 PM

    Comment: You pusillanimous self appointed sophist journalistic intelligentsia of the left such as Johnathan Alter, et al are attempting to spin the good reverend's remarks and ignore its ubiquitous political effects athwart the silent majority America of the American electorate! Your self delusion is invited by your own obvious news manipulation that favors Obama!Your Magazine is not an open or fair and balanced but rather is sophist and self delusional

  • Posted By: FRANK TELLS @ 03/15/2008 3:17:23 PM

    Comment: I WANT TO FIX HILLARY CLINTON FOR STAYING WITH BILL WHEN SHE SHOULD HAVE DIVORCED HIM OVER:
    1. HIS ANTIMASTURBATION
    2. HIS CHEATING ADULTERY
    ALSO IM AGAINST HER NOT LISTENING TO ME ABOUT VOTING AGAINST THE ANTI POKER BILL (PHONE CALLS, LETTERS) AND RECEIVING FUNDING FROM HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES WHEN THEY ARE ALREADY OVERCHARGING AND AGE DISCRIMINATING. I ALSO BELIEVE LIKE JOE LIEBERMAN THAT BILL CLINTON SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED AFTER ILLEGALLY CHEATING ON HIS WIFE.

    • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/15/2008 16:23:29

      Comment: Enough already, then why don't you ask Ted Kennedy to quit, he killed a woman by fooling around & drinking & driving. JFK was having affairs in the White House, Johnson was having affairs. If you dig deep enough you'll find more politicians having affairs. Despite their indiscretions, public servants do their jobs& serve their constiuents. It is unfair to blame a wife for her husbands actions. HC is running on her own merits & & accomplishments.

    • Posted By: H.L. Merncken @ 03/15/2008 16:18:39

      Comment: get a life!

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 03/15/2008 1:10:09 PM

    Comment: The Democrat Leadership Council and the Democrat National Committee are working against the best interests to indict and impeach the two most impeachable characters in the Executive Branch to come along in a millineum!

    While the Republicans steal votes the Democrats make it impossible for the grass roots American electoral process to function.

    Both Political parties in Congress have failed to serve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. This is why we have an illegal international invasion of Iraq with the US military in support of an incredible Iraqi Parliament.

    The Presidential debate issue for the removal of this entire Executive Branch before November 2008 is on the table contrary to what the American media report. Corporate criminals disguised as US Congressional representatives are usurping the American form of representative government while the US military is OUT OF THE COUNTRY! Bring home the US military and turn them toward Washington D.C.

    Occupy the nations Capitol in support of democracy and freedom.
    Battle the media giants that keep America behind an iron curtain of information.
    Build America back from the destruction of this nation by the neo-cons and the Bible and Razor blade crowd of lunatics funding war with the destabilization of soceity from New Orleans to Iraq and back again.

  • Posted By: MarthaTurner @ 03/15/2008 7:35:23 AM

    Comment: Chelsea Abused?

    Somebody should tell Mrs. Clinton what???s being posted on Obama and McCain websites and all over the Internet. I have read a number of slightly different versions of the following. It???s not the way for us to get beat.

    Please be advised,
    Martha Turner


    It is all on this website I found; http://www.matrix-evolutions.com

  • Posted By: MarthaTurner @ 03/15/2008 7:30:55 AM

    Comment: Chelsea Abused?

    Somebody should tell Mrs. Clinton what???s being posted on Obama and McCain websites and all over the Internet. I have read a number of slightly different versions of the following. It???s not the way for us to get beat.

    Please be advised,
    Martha Turner


    It is all on this website I found; http://www.matrix-evolutions.com

  • Posted By: jwboiler @ 03/14/2008 11:07:37 PM

    Comment: It is without question the Sen. Clinton is an excellent politician and women everywhere can be proud of her accomplishments. I however have had enough politicians and I'm looking for a leader and statesman. As a 45 year old white male, it doesn't matter to me if it's a female, person of color, or decorated POW. Sen. Obama is the only candidate who resonates with me

  • Posted By: locusthill @ 03/14/2008 10:43:38 PM

    Comment: I am astonished and saddened that so many women place a higher priority on electing a woman than on the tremendously important issues of the Iraq War and the resulting economic crisis our nation is in. Years back I admired Clinton and contributed to her first Senate campaign, but when I learned that she had voted for the war without having read the intelligence report (National Intelligence Estimate) even though she was on the Senate Intelligence Committee, I could no longer support her. To vote on such a huge question -- sending our troops to war -- without doing her homework is an appalling error. Add to that her refusal to release her tax records from 2000 to the present, and her secrecy about her activities as First Lady, makes it impossible for me, a 70-something white woman to vote for her.

  • Posted By: clkd59 @ 03/14/2008 9:30:24 PM

    Comment: I feel invisible-I am a 59 year old white woman (making less than $50,000 but college educated) who would want to support a qualified dignified woman IF she were the best candidate-but I am supporting Obama and still hope he wins despite the negative divisive tactics HC has turned to in desperation. Build yourself up in attempting to convince me to vote for you-great! But now that you've resorted to demeaning (to you Hillary), attacks and "republican" strategies", I probably won't be able to vote for you at all. Oh and you can also thank your idiot husband-his behavior and demeanor did not help!

  • Posted By: clkd59 @ 03/14/2008 9:27:26 PM

    Comment: I feel invisible-I am a 59 year old white woman (making less than $50,000 but college educated) who would want to support a qualified dignified woman IF she were the best candidate-but I am supporting Obama and still hope he wins despite the negative divisive tactics HC has turned to in desperation. Build yourself up in attempting to convince me to vote for you-great! But now that you've resorted to demeaning (to you Hillary), attacks and "republican" strategies", I probably won't be able to vote for you at all. Oh and you can also thank your idiot husband-his behavior and demeanor did not help!

    • Posted By: H.L. Merncken @ 03/15/2008 16:20:42

      Comment: your loss

  • Posted By: jdep3 @ 03/14/2008 7:54:56 PM

    Comment: Hillary is lying about her foregin policy experince. Knowing someone there in Ireland she didn't have anything to do with any of the process as she claims.I mean, it's a blatant lie.Just as the sheep that follow her today I too was caught up in her BS thinking that she was the right person and the inevitable but once I started to look into what she takes credit for as part of her so called 35 years of experience I was very surprised to see quite the opposite.Look it's all there just take the time to call her at her"word"or whatever you want to call it.As far as the article is concerned, whatever.

    • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/15/2008 17:41:47

      Comment: Aren't you willing to take Obama's word for it & elect him based on his experience as an ineffective 'community activist'? Hillary has worked since 1970's as a 'community activist' that was 'very effective'. She started Head Start in Arkansas, started the 'Special Education' programs in schools, started the 'Honors' programs in Arkansas high schools & improved AR Education standing from last in nation to in top 10. Now that is just in the 70's and 80's.

  • Posted By: seezrif @ 03/14/2008 5:10:09 PM

    Comment: "hear her roar?" You are definitely biased....no need to continue to read the article....I listen to all the reporters and they disgust me. You are supporting a divider and an imposter..................wipe the smoke away from your eyes and really look at the real Obam.....a fraud, an elmer gantry. Stop your sexism and Hillary hate!

    • Posted By: Susan33 @ 03/14/2008 22:18:19

      Comment: I think it is frightening that people can't see the real Obama, he is a fraud, and he is nothing but an empty suit. Enter Your Comment

      • Posted By: xy55 @ 03/15/2008 14:20:38

        Comment: A true Hilllary's supporter!! Just like her!

  • Posted By: harriet mandriani @ 03/14/2008 5:03:45 PM

    Comment: Hello Ms. Tina Brown: I very much like this comment. "It allows you, finally, to see the candidate through the voters' eyes, and to realize how resolutely effective, how inspiringly pedestrian Hillary Clinton is." And yet what did you focus on throughout the article? Her appearance. What does this say? Why not devote those precious words to something real. How often do we hear about Obama's ankles and apparel and hair? Why does it always have to be mentioned? What are you reinforcing to we invisible women?

    And for their sake alone, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should not give up the fight.

    Are you aware that the invisible women respect Hillary as her own woman and thus do not refer to her as Mrs Clinton or Hillary Rodham Clinton since they harken back to Bill? Thank you for your thoughts.

  • Posted By: abreyl @ 03/14/2008 4:11:52 PM

    Comment: The essays on Hillary Clinton accomplished their goal of being provocative. I had started to worry that my support for Hillary was somewhat complacent and based on nostalgia for the Clinton years after nearly 8 years of Bush or some innate loyalty to the feminist movement. The essays helped clarify my thoughts and realize that I was supporting Hillary for all the right reasons.

    The 3am phone call ad can be used as a good example - when the next crisis phone call is put through to the oval office or presidential bedroom, it could be a call about the next terrorist attack or natural disaster. The person who should answer that call needs to be smart, informed and caring. Both Obama and Clinton are undeniably smart, but Hillary has proven time and again that she is informed down to the last detail and pervasive throughout the essays was evidence of her caring nature.
    To flip the issue to a personal level think about who you would call in the middle of the night when crisis strikes. I suspect most Americans would answer "Mom". This country could use a little TLC.

  • Posted By: connieh414 @ 03/14/2008 2:28:03 PM

    Comment: As a baby -boomer woman living in Columbus and volunteering for Obama... I would vote for Hillary and her sleeze campaign if she were the last Democrate standing. I know how she got to where she is... crying the victim, lying and cheating her way to the top. Since the comments are that the only reason Barack Obama is where he is "because he is lucky to be a black man" Well, Hillary is lucky because she married a man named Bill ... she wouldn't be where she is if her name was still Rodham. See how many times she's changed her name. She will do anything to advance herself!

    • Posted By: Susan33 @ 03/14/2008 22:14:36

      Comment: How do you know that Obama is not lying and cheating his way to the top? The media makes it like he is some type of God...he is an "empty suit."

    • Posted By: real journalism @ 03/14/2008 16:56:35

      Comment: Please explain how Hillary was "lucky because she married a named Bill"? She has been vilified in the press for over twenty years. How does changing her name relevant to anything. Amazing how you Obama supporters have such little command of actual acts and are able only to defend their candidate by telling us why they shouldn't vote for Hillary and not for him. I think it reflects your candidate's lack of substance and his supporter's blind hate. Please get informed and tell us something fact-based and not hate motivated.

      • Posted By: edson @ 03/14/2008 17:34:28

        Comment: FACTS: HRC is a divider. So far I have not seen Obama trying to build himself up by tearning others down. Hilary is a master of doing that. Again, she has no experience, she has never been in charge of anything, a city, county, state, business , non-profit, you name it. Yes she is tenacious, big deal, so is Bush. When did you first hear about 'the politics of personal destruction,'? When the Clintons were in the White House maybe? Remember the 'trailer trash' comment and all the efforts to destroy the ' bimbo eruption' women. At least Spitzer paid for his pleasure rather than taking advantage of young women by his position.

  • Posted By: Ganpat @ 03/14/2008 2:14:45 PM

    Comment: Yes, Hillary is a warrior - bloody but unbowed, gloriously fighting on in the teeth of every blow, every setback, all the execration and hate that her pigmy detractors spew out.

    This is BY FAR the most exciting US election I have known.

    Thank you, Hillary, for your incredible guts.

    Never give up until the Convention makes the choice.

    Then fight again in 2012.

    That has to be Hillary's strategy.

    GIVE 'EM HELL, HILL !!!!!!! YOU ARE TENACIOUS H !!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: pktx2 @ 03/14/2008 2:14:08 PM

    Comment: Tina, the author, is missing the point. Even though she continues to reinforce it. Hillary will only win by diminishing her opponent - "Gong Negative". She is not building a coalition, she is fracturing the advantage the Democrats had going into the primaries. This will repeat 2004 because McCain will be the only one who hasn't been criticized or gone negative. When Hillary started this campaign, she had the highest percentage of negatives. Instead of dealing with it, she went after her opponents with rumour and inuendo.

  • Posted By: Susan33 @ 03/14/2008 1:05:25 PM

    Comment: Hillary is a survior, a warrior, a leader, and these are strengths that I admire. I am not voting for her because she is a woman, but because I am.

    To quote Calvin Coolidge:
    Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ???Press On??? has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

    Hillary continues to "Press On."





  • Posted By: Susan33 @ 03/14/2008 12:55:13 PM

    Comment: Why am I backing Hillary?

    She is a survivor, a warrior, a leader, and never gives up, she has true grit.

    Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ???Press On??? has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
    - Calvin Coolidge


  • Posted By: jaywuyulunbi @ 03/14/2008 12:02:10 PM

    Comment: i just want to add one question here..is it wrong for a rich woman to have a sugar baby?? it's an absolutely extramarital relationship, but more and more services come out on Internet focusing on this kind of relationship, such as SugarmommaMatch.com. how do you think of such a thing?

  • Posted By: Ganpat @ 03/14/2008 11:31:09 AM

    Comment: locusthill:

    Alarmed to learn about your deep distress that so many women are supporting Hillary.

    Don't worry.

    Many of us men are supporting her every bit as strogly.

    Relax !

  • Posted By: locusthill @ 03/14/2008 11:19:10 AM

    Comment: It is very distressing to me, a 70-something feminist since Friedan's book first came out, that women feel compelled to support Clinton. They are in denial. This woman, who supposedly is known for doing her homework, failed to read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting to authorize war in Iraq. How dare she approve of sending our troops into battle and our country into economic chaos without being informed. And she was on the Senate Intelligence Committee! Furthermore, she still refuses to release her tax records from 2000 to the present, refuses to release her records as First Lady nor to explain how she happened to have $5 million available to loan her campaign.

    I used to support her and contributed to her first Senate campaign but I am disgusted by the way she has so poorly managed her campaign and by how destructive her tactics are. I have voted Democratic since 1960 but I am fed up with the Clintons.

    And I am embarrassed that so many women are blindly supporting her, apparently because she is a woman.

    We can do much, much better.

    • Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 03/15/2008 15:05:14

      Comment: How do you think OB could buy a $1.6M mansion & adjoining lot for $400,000? OB is not poor, his wife makes $316,000.00. OB only released page 1 of his Tax Returns for 2007. HC is releasing all her Tax Returns on April 15th. After 2 books on Best Seller list HC had $5M legitimately. OB is Chair of Subcommittee on European Oversite of NATO in Afghanistan, has not held one hearing due to campaigning. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4355006&pae=2

    • Posted By: ports @ 03/14/2008 14:14:20

      Comment: locusthill - What surprises me is that you would question that a professional, accomplished person who is 60 years old and not only had a successful senate career but written books would not have $5 million dollars. In this day and age, for a professional person of that stature and age, that is not that much. There is nothing shamful about attaining wealth. By the way, would you have questioned her capacity to have a high income if she were a man? I doubt it very much.

  • Posted By: elncynnie @ 03/14/2008 11:06:28 AM

    Comment: Hillary is so happy to think that a 3:00 a.m. phone call to the White House is so important. I'm wondering who's calling? I'm supposing that Bill answers the phone: "Yes Monica. I'm in bed with Hillary but I'll call you later! Some 3:00 a.m. phone call!

  • Posted By: mzz1@msn.com @ 03/14/2008 10:24:51 AM

    Comment: Why has Hilary been on the cover 3 times in the last 7 issues? Is Newsweek playing favorates or what? I will be canceling mu subscription immediatly

  • Posted By: trudykuo @ 03/14/2008 1:51:28 AM

    Comment: I'm glad to see that the younger generation of Sarah Kliff (author of "Sorry, Hillary, But Girls Already Rule" in this issue) have been brought up to be confident and capable, resulting in higher GPAs and more advanced degrees acquired by women than men. But this piece of good news becomes particularly disheartening when it's juxtaposed with the fact that, once entering the job world, women consistently earn less than men that occupy the same type of positions. Even when you put salary aside, how does one explain the drastic shift of women being the majority in grad school but the minority in tenure track faculty positions? No, girls do not rule, not yet.
    Having said that, however, I do not see the symbolic event of electing a female president as meaningful in any practical sense. It will not guarantee, foster, or quicken any change in women's status in the world, which will always require generations of moderate changes in the minds of both women and men. Presidential election is about selecting the person that's best for the job. A vote based on gender or race exemplifies the exact bias that got women and racial minorities into the state we are still fighting to get out of.

    • Posted By: ports @ 03/14/2008 02:50:11

      Comment: trudykuo- WHO IN THE WORLD ARE YOU KIDDING? ONLY YOURSELF. IF HILLARY CLINTON GETS THE PRESIDENTIAL NOD, THERE WILL BE GREAT CHANGES FOR WOMEN IN THE WORK WORLD AND OTHER AREAS AS WELL. HAVE YOU READ THE BLOG? WHY DO YOU THINK THERE IS SUCH VENOMOUS SPEECH DIRECTED AT HILLARY CLINTON? THEY HAVE USED EVERY EXCUSE FOR THEIR MEANNESS BUT THE WAY THEY THEY HAVE TALKED ABOUT HER HAS NOT BEEN USED ON ANY MALE CANDIDATE IN HISTORY. THE NETWORKS AND MAGS ARE TALKING ABOUT RACIAL SLURS RIGHT NOW BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT I HAVE READ THE "B" WORD USED ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON NUMEROUS TIMES IN BLOG AND NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT THAT OR EVEN TALKS ABOUT IT. BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN AND THAT IS OK LANGUAGE FOR WOMEN? NO, THERE IS GENDER BIAS AND IT IS RAMPANT, IT JUST DOESN'T GET THE PRESS.

      • Posted By: trudykuo @ 03/15/2008 12:56:24

        Comment: I empathize with your outrage. But not everyone is willing to make a decision like this based on emotional reactions to events. If you think I was trying to support any candidate, then either I did not write clearly enough or your emotions were biasing your interpretation of other people's thoughts.

  • Posted By: ports @ 03/14/2008 1:37:13 AM

    Comment: Note: Obama was the only one who ran a political ad in Florida. Then he made up an excuse for it. Hillary Clinton won Florida but we shouldn't allow those voters to count. He took the edge and when the game wasn't called as his, well, forget that state. The fact that he was the only one to actually campaign there should have legitimized a revote.

    • Posted By: lisas @ 03/14/2008 08:20:40

      Comment: Florida and Michigan voters voted with no expectation of their votes counting. The situation stands as all knew that it would - the votes would not count. Hillary seems to want to play the game by changing the rules at will. We already have a President who does that.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 03/13/2008 11:51:43 PM

    Comment: edson - My brain used to be republican until Bill Clinton's r